Big hoopla tonight over LeBron James choosing a city. Will he stay in his hometown? Where will he go? Cities and teams smushed into one entity. All the speculation about his travel plans is over now. With the words, “I’m going to take my talents to South Beach,” LeBron’s Miami-bound.
“I never wanted to leave Cleveland, [...]
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Choosing a city the LeBron James way
July 9th, 2010 No Comments
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Dark news from the Lehigh Valley
December 17th, 2009 1 Comment
Forget steel. American Weirdness is booming in the Lehigh Valley.
Today’s headline: Teacher dead from heroin overdose on a school night. A beautiful 24 year-old biology teacher, blond. At a high school 28 miles south on the previous day, the same drug lulled a girl to sleep in class.
Bowhunters recently found a decomposed body in the [...]
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What would you be doing right now?
December 13th, 2009 1 Comment
One of the first instincts upon a change of location is to start thinking in terms of parallel existence–comparing hours, schedules, routines, and so on.
Sitting on the roof of the hotel, staring at the moonlit Taj, you think, “I’d be walking into work right now.”
This isn’t so much looking back, but looking sideways. Conditional thinking: [...]
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Why I Turned Down a Year in Asia for Bethlehem, PA
September 1st, 2009 6 Comments
Photo by Marty.fm
A couple months ago, I told some friends and family that the time had come. That I’d been home almost a year, and would soon hit the road to teach English in Asia. Boom–gotta get out of here. Next stop: Daegu, Korea, or Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
We’re trained to follow through on what we say, [...]
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Why Live in a Small Room?
August 24th, 2009 2 Comments
A small room forces you out of the room. It cuts down the number of anchors you can keep. A bed, two chairs, and a desk. Clothes in a duffel on the floor. Forget A/C, put a fan in the window and bring in the world.
A small room amplifies the assertions of what you put [...]
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